Frame
Category
Frames
Date
Unknown
Materials
Compo, Oil and water gilt, Pine
Measurements
970 x 660 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485576
Summary
An English, Morland style, frame for a portrait (NT/PET/P/188)of an unidentified Cardinal in the manner of Titian (c.1487-1576).
Provenance
At Petworth by 1820. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.